Chimes at Midnight

Chimes at Midnight

115 mins | Drama, Comedy, History | March 16, 1965

The culmination of Orson Welles’s lifelong obsession with Shakespeare’s robustly funny and ultimately tragic antihero, Sir John Falstaff; the often soused friend of King Henry IV’s wayward son Prince Hal. Integrating elements from both Henry IV plays as well as Richard II, Henry V, and The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Chimes at Midnight

115 mins | Drama, Comedy, History | March 16, 1965

Chimes at Midnight
The culmination of Orson Welles’s lifelong obsession with Shakespeare’s robustly funny and ultimately tragic antihero, Sir John Falstaff; the often soused friend of King Henry IV’s wayward son Prince Hal. Integrating elements from both Henry IV plays as well as Richard II, Henry V, and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers Internacional Films Espagnol, Alpine Productions, Peppercorn-Wormser Inc
Original title Campanadas a medianoche
Directors Orson Welles
Writers Raphael Holinshed, William Shakespeare, Orson Welles

Cast

Orson Welles

as Falstaff

Keith Baxter

as Prince Hal

John Gielgud

as Henry IV

Jeanne Moreau

as Doll Tearsheet

Margaret Rutherford

as Mistress Quickly

Marina Vlady

as Kate Percy

Walter Chiari

as Mr. Silence

Michael Aldridge

as Pistol

Tony Beckley

as Ned Poins

Jeremy Rowe

as Prince John

Norman Rodway

as Henry 'Hotspur' Percy

Alan Webb

as Justice Shallow

Fernando Rey

as Worcester

José Nieto

as Northumberland

Andrew Faulds

as Westmoreland

Patrick Bedford

as Bardolph (as Paddy Bedford)

Ralph Richardson

as Narrator (voice)

Ingrid Pitt

as (uncredited)

Beatrice Welles

as Falstaff's Page